Microsoft, which has been on a cross-licensing kick, has cut a broad patent cross-license with Samsung Electronics, one of the largest US patent portfolio holders. The boilerplate announcing the deal says 'Samsung and its distributors and customer may utilize Mic...

Sourcefire, which just went public a month ago, had its teeth kicked in Monday after it pre-announced its Q1 results and said it was going to lose $2.2 million-$2.6 million on revenues $10.1 million-$10.5 million, up around 20% year-over-year. Its stock was stil...

Dell has gotten another one of those delisting warnings from the Nasdaq, this one telling it that it hasn't filed its 10-K for the year ending February 2 and so it's out of compliance with the rules. Dell has matching notices covering Q2, Q3 and Q4. There's still ...

OpenOffice, the Sun-sponsored open source project, has hit rev 2.2, claiming it's 'a real alternative to Microsoft's recently released Office 2007.' Apparently they've enhanced the word processor, spreadsheet, presentations and database and figure it's now an 'e...

'To me, Java is like the cheap, but affordable property and .NET is like the - ahem - 'Gated' community,' writes consultant Dan Mabbutt at the About website. 'Java has been around a bit longer - long enough to be tied into the architecture that was current when it...

The European Commission wants Microsoft to license its server protocols to rivals for nothing according to the Financial Times, which says it saw a 'confidential document' saying so. According to the paper Microsoft wants a maximum of 5.95% of a licensee's server...

Intel confirmed that it is going to build a $2.5 billion politically sensitive plant in China. Plans have been in the works for over 18 months. The only way Intel was able to get the US government to countenance the deal was to ensure it wasn't a joint venture. It...

'Today Microsoft issued a rare out-of-cycle patch to fix vulnerabilities in GDI,' said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager, McAfee Avert Labs. 'McAfee Avert Labs is always concerned when Microsoft releases an out-of-cycle patch. We urge ou...

As much as it may pain Red Hat, Oracle, - and maybe now IBM - it seems that Novell is actually in resurgence. According to a new survey by the Yankee Group due out next week, 14% of the nearly 1,000 IT managers and C-level executives polled said they will deploy S...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) finally delivered itself of the third draft of the GPL rewrite known as GPLv3 on Wednesday. This is the draft that got held up for months because of the surprise Microsoft-Novell rapprochement in November that the FSF found so of...

FSF's biggest problem with the Microsoft-Novell arrangement is that it appears that Novell is paying Microsoft not to sue its SUSE Linux users for patent infringement, at least the ones that pay Novell money, leaving users of other brands of Linux to twist in the ...

Infragistics, the world's largest publisher of reusable presentation layer development tools for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Tablet PC and Java, has today released the highly anticipated NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 1. NetAdvantage for .NET 2007 Volume 1 allows ...

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, Ajax for short, is a Web development technique used to aid the creation of interactive Web applications. Instead of needing to reload an entire webpage with each update from the server, Ajax allows a JavaScript engine to exchange dat...

Microsoft has announced at the Interoperability Summit in Brussels that its virtualization format technology will now be available under its Open Specification Promise (OSP), an irrevocable promise from Microsoft to every individual and organization in the world t...

Microsoft's Vista-optimized Virtual PC 2007 is out. Microsoft imagines people using it to run legacy Windows environments on Vista as well as use it for software development and testing. Remember now, Microsoft says low-end versions of Vista and Vista's data encry...

Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on Monday, saying the thing will connect and integrate with Vista and Office 2007. Microsoft also said it was lifting its bar on virtualization and letting licenses of the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server 2005 run an...

Global 360, a leading provider of business process management (BPM), intelligence and optimization solutions, today renewed its commitment to providing customers with tightly integrated BPM and process intelligence solutions through the utilization of Microsoft'...

IBM has announced the next generation of tape virtualization solutions, with the introduction of the IBM System Storage TS7700 Virtualization Engine, a mainframe virtual-tape offering designed to improve tape processing while also supporting business continuity th...

AccuRev Inc. has announced that Alaska Airlines has standardized on AccuRev for process-centric software configuration management (SCM). Known for embracing innovative technology to improve the customer experience, Alaska Airlines chose AccuRev to be at the cent...

Novell and Intel say they have the drivers that will let Windows run unmodified in a Xen virtual environment on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 on Intel servers fitted with Intel's Virtualization Technology. They said the paravirtualized network and block device d...

Infragistics, the world leader in presentation layer development tools, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of their ASP.NET AJAX Extensions Release Candidate compatible tools. The fully supported download of

webMethods has joined the Interop Vendor Alliance, designed to better connect people, data and diverse systems through enhanced interoperability with Microsoft technology. The organization serves as a collaborative forum for developing and sharing common technolog...

Infragistics, the world leader in presentation layer development tools, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of their ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX RTM compatible tools. The fully supported download of NetAdvantage for ASP.NET with ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX compatibility w...

By working closely with Microsoft to ensure constant compatibility in anticipation of the official release of ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX RTM, Infragistics successfully positioned itself to be able to announce today the immediate availability of its ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX RTM compatible tools.

Wal-Mart is gonna be taking some of those SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscription certificates that Microsoft agreed to pass out as part of its alliance with Novell. It's unclear whether Wal-Mart, a big Microsoft user, the alma mater of Microsoft's COO Kevin Tur...

Microsoft today announced the official release to Web of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. This tool provides Web developers with the essential tools to simplify building next-generation, AJAX-style Web applications through what it calls 'seamless integration with the .NET Fram...

The 2007 initiative offers grants for both introductory- and intermediate-level GIS programs. The introductory level supports 4-H Clubs new to GIS and GPS technology. The intermediate level is for clubs that have successfully applied for and received software un...

Oce , a global leader in digital document management and delivery systems, today announced that it has joined the ESRI Business Partner Program as a Complementary Technology Provider (CTP). As a CTP partner of ESRI, the world leader in GIS software, Oce provides ...

ComponentArt announced the immediate availability of Web.UI version 2006.2. This new release features Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX the first suite of controls designed specifically for the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX development framework (formerly code-named Atlas), curr...

At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year?

telerik, the leading vendor of UI components for .NET development, today announces the immediate availability of radControls Q4 2006 for ASP.NET and Windows Forms - bringing the first ever Vista-style controls for Windows Forms.

American universities - well, some of them anyway - make a lot of money off IP thanks in part to laws that let them hold patents on federally funded research and license the widgetry. Whether it's liberal guilt or not, seven of them, nudged by IBM Research, will f...

IBM counted noses and says there are now nearly 1,000 Linux applications that run on its mainframes, a 100% jump over this time last year, a fact it attributes to virtualization and basic mainframe performance. IBM recently reported a 390% jump in mainframe sites ...

In its first indication of how its six-week old frontal assault on Red Hat has been going, Oracle said Monday during its Q2 conference call that people downloaded 9,000 copies of its freebie indemnified Unbreakable Linux Red Hat replacement in the first 30 days.

and foreclosed opportunities for AMD to sell America-made MPUs at home and abroad and foreign-made chips to domestic clients - and that that would include foreign discovery considering 68% of the market is overseas.

Novell claims Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies, part of the big insurance company, are taking advantage of the infamous Microsoft-Novell interoperability pact. Microsoft is supposed to provide them with SUSE subscription certificates, the bulk of...

Lead Samba developer Jeremy Allison is the new open source folk hero. He has quit Novell because of the patent clause in the company's controversial seven-week-old alliance with Microsoft under which Novell pays Microsoft royalties and in turn gets SUSE Linux an...

Anyway, the survey, whose results were released by Novell, is supposed to show that 80%-90% of the 201 people surveyed back the idea of improving the interoperability between Windows Server and SUSE and having tools that make managing mixed environments easier. No...

Sun has released its downloadable next-generation Java Platform Standard Edition 6 and no it's not open source, even if it's the first Java developed closer to the open source way, a process of supposedly open review, weekly builds and the input of a reported 330 ...